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Associate Professor of Finance & RepublicBank Fellow
Mays Business School
Texas A&M University
Office: (979) 845-3015
Email: xliu@mays.tamu.edu
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Corporate Culture, Corporate Governance, Initial Public Offerings, and Innovation
PUBLICATIONS
The Role of Trust in Information Processing: Evidence from Security Analysts (with Vineet Bhagwat), May 2020
The Accounting Review 95 (3), 59-83
Can Corporate Income Tax Cuts Stimulate Innovation? (with Julian Atanassov), August 2020
Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis 55 (5), 1415-1465
Corruption Culture and Corporate Misconduct, November 2016
Journal of Financial Economics, 122 (2), 307-327
Local Underwriter Oligopolies and IPO Underpricing (with Jay R. Ritter), December 2011
Journal of Financial Economics 102 (3), 579-601
The Economic Consequences of IPO Spinning (with Jay R. Ritter), May 2010
Review of Financial Studies 23 (5), 2024-2059
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WORKING PAPERS
Competition, Capital Market Feedback, and Earnings Management: Evidence from Economic Deregulation (with Jongsub Lee)
Reject and Resubmit at the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis
Shared Culture and Technological Innovation: Evidence from Corporate R&D Teams (with Tristan Fitzgerald)
Presented at the American Finance Association (AFA) Annual Meeting, the Western Finance Association (WFA) Annual Meeting, the American Economic Association (AEA) Annual Meeting, Financial Intermediation Research Society (FIRS) Conference, Society of Labor Economists (SOLE) Annual Meeting, Midwest Finance Association (MFA) Annual Meeting, Edinburgh Corporate Finance Conference, SFS Cavalcade North America Conference (scheduled), China International Conference in Finance (scheduled), and Global Entrepreneurship and Innovation Research Conference (scheduled)
Do Companies use Mergers to Avoid Taxes? (with Julian Atanassov and Vineet Bhagwat)
CEO Saving Culture, Cash Holdings and Shareholder Value (with Chen Lin)
Cultural Origins and CEO Incentive Contracts